Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought that it might be right to be a monk kept coming back . |
| 2 | It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure . |
| 3 | If we were to seek an explanation in the fact that Gandhi , as we have seen , does not equate ahi sā with non-killing and notes the distinction between ahi sā and hi sā by indicating that hi sā means killing from motives of anger or selfishness and ahi sā means refraining from so doing , then it might be possible to be a believer in ahi sā and yet kill , provided the killing is not prompted by angry or selfish motives and is performed with detachment as one 's duty . |
| 4 | Erm why do you have to be strong to be a policeman ? |
| 5 | You do n't have to be strong to be a policeman . |
| 6 | You have to be prepared to be a bit dumb . ’ |
| 7 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 8 | It can not be easy to be the partner of a genius , and Constanze certainly made the best of it . |
| 9 | Further , the heat ( or other energy ) supplied may be supposed to be a flux across the boundary of the volume under consideration . |
| 10 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 11 | His owner Dick Knowles told Dogs Today : ‘ There 's nothing in the constitution that says you have to be human to be an MP ! |
| 12 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be a good-looking pig , but it would be terrible to be a child with a face like that . ’ |
| 14 | It must be great to be a bird — you know , just flying over people and buildings and that . |
| 15 | It must be great to be a human , Grimma thought , as thorns the length of her hand tore at her dress . |
| 16 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 17 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 18 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 19 | I was scared to death when I married you because I knew I would n't be able to be the kind of wife you needed . |
| 20 | ‘ I have to be quick , ’ I told Eric , and explained why he would not be able to be the principessa 's gardener . |
| 21 | it 's fine to be blind to be an adult , but these wee titchy things and there 's a little boy saying , you know I was really looking forward to this , this is really exciting , totally blind ooh |
| 22 | I certainly recall visiting residential and nursing homes in my constituency of which one could genuinely say that one would be pleased to be a member of that community . |
| 23 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be wonderful to be a father , wake up on Xmas morning and say , ‘ What have we bought everybody ? ’ |
| 25 | It must be marvellous to be an instrumentalist or a singer good enough to hold an audience in your spell , like Maria Callas or Yehudi Menuhin. but I would have had to be at the top , not just scraping along . |
| 26 | Everybody stand up and be ready to be a bear |
| 27 | World champion passenger Simon Birchall and arch-rival Gavin Simmons tell JOHN McKENZIE you do n't have to be mad to be a GP sidecar co-pilot . |